about us
| The roots of the
company go back to 1981 when it began life as Kennewick
Computer Company and sold Atari computers. Computer sales
and service remained the primary focus of the company for
several years, until the need for a better point of sale
system lead the company in a new direction. Not satisfied
with the products available at the time, company management
decided to create their own custom POS solution. When other
merchants expressed interest in the software, the decision
was made to form POSitive Software Company as a division
that would concentrate on the development and marketing of
the new point of sale product. POSitive Retailer was commercially released in November 1993 at Fall COMDEX, then one of the largest tradeshows in the world. POSitive Retailer was DOS based and remained our flagship program until 1999. In 1996 POSitive started to write POSitive for Windows. That software was three years in development and was released in February 1999. POSitive for Windows is now in its fourth generation and has thousands of users around the world. In July 1999 POSitive teamed with Edge Technologies, the developer of Account Wizard E-Commerce Systems, to provide a complete “round trip” e-commerce solution that seamlessly integrates the store based POS system with the web based e-commerce system. Orders taken on the web make the “round trip” by importing the web orders from the web into POSitive For Windows at the click of a button. In 2002, POSitive Software purchased all rights to Account Wizard and formed the Account Wizard Business Services division. 2006 was a year of development as we readied two new products for release: POSitive Retail Manager and POSitiveCommerce. POSitive Retail Manager is built around a SQL database and incorporates many new features, such as a fully customizable touch screen interface, that have been requested by our customers. POSitiveCommerce is our new e-commerce service which was built using open source technology from Joomla and VirtueMart. In conjunction with POSitive for Windows or POSitive Retail Manager, POSitiveCommerce is a "full round trip" e-commerce solution. We will continue to develop innovative and affordable point of sale and e-commerce products for small to medium size retailers. |